Last week, it was WTMJ-TV (Channel 4) which asked viewers to weigh in on its poll: "Do we need more fun control?"

Today, it's WITI-TV (Channel 6), which, when offering its holiday forecast, chose the wrong holiday - as the graphic below demonstrates. Also notice: weather guy Rob Haswell as being "in the studio" and anchors Nicole Koglin and Kim Murphy on the "weather deck."

Such errors are human nature. But one reader believes that cutbacks in newsrooms in all departments are responsible for such "misteaks," as he called them.

"Obviously that was the wrong video." "We will get back to that story later." "We are having technical difficulties." "Sorry xxxx but your microphone is not working." Misspellings in the bottom of screen captions. I can go on and on. It is obvious that the lowest paid and most incompetent people are trying to run the media.

And he urged me to ask readers to monitor local stations and send along notes about or photos of similar misteaks. Consider it done.

About Duane Dudek

Duane Dudek is a reporter and columnist covering radio and television. He also reviews movies.